*waves hand over land* “Agates… everywhere!” Thanks for tuning in! 🕵🏻‍♂️

Beautiful stuff! I love the colors and patterns with the white contrast! Thanks for taking us along!

@waywardwoodward

2 ай бұрын

My pleasure! I love them teepee color combos!

They’re some beautiful little agates.thank you

@waywardwoodward

2 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for tuning in!

Spent a day out there last year right at the wall area where everyone goes, never found any that nice. Good job! Guess I need to walk around more. Need to spend a night camping out there so I can put some hours in...

@waywardwoodward

2 ай бұрын

You said it best… gotta walk around and explore some more. They are out there! Getting there after fresh erosion and before everyone else will also help. This was a spot you can normally drive right to just about, but the gates in the area are still closed for the season so if a person wants to get on em, they gotta hike in. Early bird gets the worm! The easy stuff gets picked up fast! Thanks for tuning in 💪🕵🏻‍♂️

I've seen some people say they don't care to find the tepee agate, but why not?!! They are just as cool looking at the fairburn. Some pieces look really nice and rich in color

@waywardwoodward

2 ай бұрын

Them people are weird 🤣 I love me some teepee! I think some folks don’t hunt them because they aren’t worth as much as the fairburns. More for us! Thanks for tuning in!

Teepees are cool. I like to surface hunt there mostly, more fun IMHO. I have a buddy who lives in Custer who is a Teepee fanatic and hard rock mines out the big nodules with sledge hammers, huge pry bars, chisels, etc. He always gets a bunch, but it is back breaking work to excavate all the layers of limestone, until you find the layers of crystal, then jasper, then usually agate in that order. I can do it, but too much work for me, I’d rather just walk around and find the smaller stuff (although not as valuable).

@waywardwoodward

11 күн бұрын

lol I’m familiar with and fully understand the hard rock mining side of them as well, but also prefer surface collecting. Just because I don’t have a video doing it doesn’t mean I don’t know how it works. We probably know some of the same people. Thanks for tuning in!

Teepee canyon produces some very nice material!

@waywardwoodward

2 ай бұрын

Indeed! I gotta dig up some big stuff one of these days!

Very cool finds. I love Teepee Canyon agates - chippers and bigger ones. I live near Seattle, and will be staying just west of Custer in 2 weeks. I would love to go on a hunt. Any chance you can give me a couple locations, forest road #'s, to go on a hunt? Appreciate your videos. Thanks.

@waywardwoodward

18 күн бұрын

Thanks for tuning in! Pretty much, anything west of Mud Springs Rd over to Teepee canyon area is good for searching, and for a few miles north of HWY 16, but don’t disregard south of the road either. The whole area has lots of pockets to search out, lots of it I have yet walk. I believe “South Dakota rockhound dot com” has some decent directions to a few known starting points as well if you give that a google search. Best luck out there! 🕵🏻‍♂️

You Rock Brother! 🪨 truly

@waywardwoodward

Ай бұрын

Thank you, and thanks for tuning in!